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| | [AI summary] The article discusses periodic trends in the periodic table, focusing on atomic size, electronegativity, electron affinity, ionization energy, and metallic character, explaining how these properties vary across the table and their implications for chemical behavior.
| | cosmicchemist.com
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| | Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) is the process wherein an electron attaches onto a molecule and causes it to dissociate and / or fragment. The sizes of the molecules chosen to undergo DEA are comparatively enormous to the size of the attached electron (remember, electrons are tiny, tiny substituents of atoms, which in turn, bind together...
| | thinking-about-science.com
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| | Before you read this, I suggest you read post 25.1. In post 25.1, I started to describe how the valence bond theory explains how carbon and hydrogen atoms are joined in molecules of ethane, ethene and ethyne (see picture above). My purpose was to introduce the concept of hybrid orbitals. In this post, I am...
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| A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I'm speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn't really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the changes in the long run bestow some advantage (or at least no disadvantage) to the survival of the organism. Let's rephrase the question: what evolutionary...